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H. G. BLISH.

WHIP RACK.

No. 360,272. Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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Ihvrran Aram* HENRY G. BLISH, OF WINDSOR, NEIV YORK.

WHIP-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,272, dated March 29, 1887.

Application tiled November Q3, 1886. Serial No. 219,549. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HENRY G. BLIsH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vindsor, in the county of Broome and State of New York,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in IVhip-Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apperiains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through- K out the several views.

rllhe object of my invention is to provide a whip-rack simple in construction, of moderate cost, which can be made to hold large quantities of whips, where such are kept, and which is always sureto catch and hold the whip.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a large rack to hang out where whips may be struck in on all sides, and is designed more especially for use in stores and shops where quantities of whips are kept. Fig. 2 is a shorter rack, intended to fasten up at the side of a room when a small rack is all that is needed. Figs. 3 and 4 are details of the ends of the rack, Fig. 3 showing the flat side of the ribbon, and Fig. 4 an edge View of it.

As will be seen from the drawings, the body of the rack is made of acoiled wire. For this purpose I use about No. l0 wire coiled to about an inch in diameter, with the wire in the straight coil a little less distance apart than the thickness of the wire. Inside the coil is a steel ribbon, the ends of which are shown at B, Fig. l, which ribbon runs inside the length of the coil, with the ends projecting beyond the coil. At the ends of the coil the wire is fastened to the ribbon by the small hooks d, (shown in Figs. 3 and 4,) or some equivalent device.' These must be put in and fastened while the coil is straight. so as to hold coil and ribbon tirnily together'. One end of the ribbon has a bend or turn, (shown at b, Fig. 4,) and both ends have the locking-notches b b, (shown in Fig. 3,) one of them being cut in this turn b. The coil is turned to a circle with the ribbon on the inner side of the coil, and the ends ofthe ribbon are locked together by means of these locking-notches, as shown in Fig. 1. This bending the coil to a circular forni opens the outer side of the coil, thus making for each turn of the coil a wedge-shaped opening, into which the whip can be struck. the chains E E E, and when hung out in a room where access can be had to all sides of it holds a large number of whips.

Vhen asmaller rack will meet the need, the form shown in Fig. 2 is used. This is a shorter section than that used for Fig. l, but the same sized coil is used. The coil and ribbon are fastened together in the same way; but the ribbon, instead of the locking-notches, is turned just beyond the end of the coil at an angle of about forty-tive degrees, so as to set flat on the side of a room when the rack is fastened up, and the ends have screw-holes to fasten it up, as shown at e e, Fig. 2.

lIhe center of the rack has a chain or stay, D, to fasten above, to prevent the center from turning down. A chain, O, is attached near each end of the rack, shorter than the coil, to draw and hold the rack in the form of a segment of a circle, thus opening the spaces on the outside, so that the whips may be struck in, the saine as in the full-circle rack shown in Fig. 1. In either form the rack is unfastcned and straightened out for shipment.

The rack may also be formed by the use of a small coil inside the larger, or without any stay whatever inside the main coil, but I have found these unsatisfactory and that the dat ribbon is the best form of stay to use and makes the most satisfactory rack; but I do not desire to limit myself to that precise form, nor to any specific form of fastening.

Having thus described my invention and the manner of its construction, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

In a circular whiprack such as described, the combination of a flexible baud provided at the ends with notches, the said notches opening upon opposite sides of and extending half through the said band, a spring-coil enfolding and contracted upon saidband, and retaining devices driven through the said band at the points to which the said contracted spring extends, and the protruding ends turned over the final coil of the said spring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. l IVitnesses: HENRY G. BLISH.

VILLLIM E. WELToN,

Imi G. OWEN.

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